"Unfortunately Leptothorax buschingeri could never be confirmed as a real species. The type material consists of a series of teratological males." Prof. A. Buschinger.

But still, the name is accepted and kept in the list of valid species...

Note on AntWiki: "This species is most probably a junior synonym of Leptothorax acervorum. Only a couple of males from one colony have been described. Having compared the type material with numerous ordinary males of L. acervorum, and with a number of misshaped specimens, I am convinced that L. buschingeri represents nothing but teratological specimens of the presumed host species. A. Buschinger 03:33, 30 November 2012 (EST)."

Who are the people that myrmecologists “use” as name-givers to new ant-species? A few examples from recent tormented ant history…

Teleutomyrmex schneideri Kutter, 1950.

Let’s start with the ant Teleutomyrmex schneideri. H. Kutter named that ant after the Swiss Prof. Dr. Otto Schneider-Orelli (1880-1965), his teacher and friend. Prof. Dr. Otto Schneider-Orelli became Doctor in Botany (plants.) in 1905, assistant in botany (grapes for wine) from 1905 till 1913 in Wädenswil and changed to entomology from 1913 till 1917 there. Kept working on insects at the ETH from 1917 on and became professor at the ETH in 1921. In 1928 he became the first director of the Institute of Entomology of the ETH. Kept the functions of professor and director till his retirement in 1950. His most important job was curator of the entomological collection of the ETH in Zurich (1917-1950). He worked as entomologist on Hemiptera as pests in agriculture and forests.
His father and his son also were botanists (Later, his son became, like his father, an entomologist.).

Tetramorium schneideri Emery, 1898.

C. Emery named this ant after Prof. Oskar Schneider, another botanist, from Germany, who had collected the holotype. Couldn’t find more about this Prof. Oskar Schneider.
When Teleutomyrmex schneideri was placed in Tetramorium it became a junior synonym of Emery’s ant and got another name…

Teleutomyrmex kutteri Tinaut, 1990.

Yes, A. Tinaut dedicated this ant to Dr. H. Kutter…

Tetramorium semilaeve var.kutteri Santschi, 1927.

In 1927, F. Santschi described the ant and named it after the collector of the animal, H. Kutter. In 2017, the name was synonymised with Tetramorium indocile Santschi, 1927, described in the same paper but four pages earlier…
When Teleutomyrmex kutteri was placed in Tetramorium it became a junior synonym of Santschi’s ant. Ward et al. didn’t notice that fact and forgot to give it another name…